You may have heard of gold in Alaska or out on the west coast in California and some of the other northwest coast states in America. I can tell you the southern gold belt which runs from Virginia down through the Carolinas and into the Peach State of Georgia is still producing gold today. I have been able to find small flakes of gold in many different parts of Georgia already. I am a novice gold prospector and I have yet to find my first gold nugget. After seeing the sharp increase in gold prices over the last couple of years, I am now working hard to be a expert gold prospector.

Just a few years back, a nugget in this picture above would have went for about $300 or less. Now with gold so popular, the gold price for just one of these nuggets could easily be worth 1,200 dollars or more. It only takes an ounce to get $12 or $13 hundred dollars and since gold is so heavy, you can see it wouldn’t take many of these small nuggets in the picture to equal an ounce.

Why isn’t everyone out looking for gold? I ask that question almost daily, as I try to think of new ways to prospect for gold in my state of Georgia. I guess some people don’t have close access to a rich area of gold. I believe these people could still invest in gold related stocks or invest in some of the new gold coins; which are currently being printed, to feed the craving of gold investing appetites. Many financial experts think the price of gold will go even higher, from its healthy price it carries with it today.

I haven’t had no luck in finding those really large nuggets or a gold vein cropping out of a quartz rock. I wish I did have a good gold spot I could go to daily, to pan for these bigger flakes and nuggets of gold. I do have the streams, creeks, and rivers to myself right now. I expect that to change in the near future, if some gold prospectors do start to find some rich deposits of gold in the southern gold belt. You have to have a good eye to spot gold out in the wild, but once you know what your looking for, you will never over look another shinny rock again. I am enjoying my first year of gold fever and I hope I can find some cures for this gold fever soon. Let me know if you live in the southern gold belt and when was the last time you went panning for gold?